[CPEO-MEF] ENERGY: Sustainable remediation at Travis Air Force Base, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Taking energy conservation and environmental cleanup to the next level

Commentary by Mark Smith, 60th Civil Engineering Squadron
Air Force Link
October 17, 2008

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Over the last 25 years, the Air Force 
has devoted a lot of effort and resources to clean up soil and 
groundwater contamination from past industrial activities. Although the 
Environmental Protection Agency has overseen and supported this cleanup 
work and other cleanup projects across the country, it has recently 
become concerned with the amount of energy consumed and pollution 
created to carry out cleanup work.

As a response to this concern, the EPA has developed the concept of 
sustainable remediation. Sustainable remediation means that one part of 
the environment is cleaned up without dirtying up another part of the 
environment. An example is a treatment plant that is powered by an 
energy source that does not create green house gases. Two key objectives 
of sustainable remediation are to reduce energy consumption and to 
minimize or eliminate carbon dioxide emissions to the air.

Travis Air Force Base has been on the forefront of sustainable 
remediation when it began in 2005 to install solar-powered pumps to 
parts of the base where electricity was not readily available. Solar 
power is plentiful, cheap and generates no greenhouse gases.


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For the entire commentary, see
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123119880

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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